Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four lines of reasoning to a single problem and he usually preferred the indirect approach where it would serve him better than the direct attack on a problem. His mind was quick and facile. His thoughts far outraced his speech and this gave rise to his frequent 'scrambled syntax...
Money Makes Money. Born in Austria and raised in Baltimore, Weinberg quit school in sixth grade to help out in his father's auto repair shop. This left him short on the niceties of syntax (for ex ample, he says of former Fifth Avenue Coach Chairman Howard Cullman: "He was entrusted of these stockholders with their money and he done as chairman a very bad job"). But Weinberg is a near genius at numbers...
Fractured Syntax...
Allow me to congratulate you for printing "Syntax Problem" [Jan. 26]. For years I have been trying to decide whether I had lost "Mr. President" or he had lost...
Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to allow verbatim quotation of his press conferences, and got an eight-year kidding for his sprawling syntax. Now it turns out that John Kennedy can also forget just where and how a sentence got started. In fact, it is a little hard to guess which President said what...